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Daily Archives: December 17, 2024

American Autocracy Threat Tracker

State Democracy Defenders Action: “President-elect Donald Trump has said he will be a “dictator on day one.” Our American Autocracy Threat Tracker comprehensively catalogs all of Trump’s and his allies’ Project 2025 and other specific plans and promises. We also catalog potential bipartisan solutions to address the threat both now and should it come to pass in 2025. The full Threat Tracker is updated regularly.   We convened political and thought leaders from across the ideological spectrum and hundreds of Americans for a summit: Autocracy in America – A Warning and Response. This was a unifying call to action and a moment for hope. Watch the panel discussions. Coming out of the conference, co-hosts, partners and others have signed on to 10 principles that guide out shared cross-partisan alternative vision of where we want to take our country in 2025 and beyond. View the Freedom 2025 – 10 Principles.”

Traffic Cam Photobooth

“Traffic Cam Photobooth is a website that allows anybody to locate their nearest publicly available traffic camera and use it to take pictures of themselves. While these cameras are ostensibly intended for traffic, they also serve to acclimate us to the idea that constant monitoring is an everyday part life in the city. No matter… Continue Reading

Rebel Yell

Tablet – Part I: Donald Trump broke the back of the GOP establishment by driving blue-collar and lower-middle-class politics in a Southern direction. His gentry Republican critics have only themselves to blame. Donald Trump’s first and in many ways most enduring political accomplishment is not the humiliation of the Democratic Party he has toppled in… Continue Reading